being on the list : was RE: [sdiy] help needed: thermal equations to RC networks analogy

[Magnus Danielson]

From: "Czech Martin" <Martin.Czech at Micronas.com>
Subject: being on the list : was RE: [sdiy] help needed: thermal equations to RC networks analogy
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 10:14:38 +0100

Dear Martin,

> >Magnus - don't know if I should bother answering emails like these... seems so
> >useless and thankless at times...
> 
> Magnus, your input is 90% of the time an important input at least for me.
> Certainly for others , too. I think this is very good S/N ratio.

Many, many thanks!

> If you lift your head *out of the trench* someone might shoot at you.

I usually walk past trenches and run my own little war... :/

> E-Mail is a nice invention, but also dangerous. The danger lies in the
> fact that people have not much time, and use telegram style.
> This would be different in a letter or telephone call.

Interesting, since I try to keep such a style that I would keep in a real
letter, even if you cut down on certain aspects when being among friends.


> This can shorten things until the opposite of the wanted statement
> comes out. Also this makes statements more cynical, sneering etc.
> as the sender really wanted. And we certainly have a language
> problem, too. Sometimes no response simply means consent, because
> of time.
> 
> So I would say if one considers all the circumstances it
> is not at all useless or thankless.

Lack of positive feedback never the less give the same result.

One of the greater lessons you learn in life is that negative feedback to
people doesn't really work unless you also are able to give positive feedback.
Since positive feedback is so scarse, so when you give it, it is greatly
apprechiated and people can get going for days with a little joyfull smile as
a result.

There's plenty of people here which inpires me, so I don't know which to
pick... there's you, Jürgen, Jörgen, Ian, Gene, René... which is certainly a
non-complete list!!!

Cheers,
Magnus